BIOS Setup
Power Management Features
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ACPI Standby State
This item specifies the power saving modes for ACPI function. If your operating system supports ACPI, such as Windows 98SE, Windows ME and Windows 2000, you can choose to enter the Standby mode in S1 (POS) or S3 (STR) fashion through the setting of this field. Options are:
[S1/POS] | The S1 sleep mode is a low power state. In this state, no system |
| context is lost (CPU or chipset) and hardware maintains all system |
| context. |
[S3/STR] | The S3 sleep mode is a lower power state where the information of |
| system configuration and open applications/files is saved to main |
| memory that remains powered while most other hardware compo- |
| nents turn off to save energy. The information stored in memory will |
| be used to restore the system when a “wake up” event occurs. |
[Auto] | BIOS determines the best automatically. |
Re-Call VGA BIOS at S3 Resuming
Selecting [Enabled] allows BIOS to call VGA BIOS to initialize the VGA card when system wakes up (resumes) from S3 sleep state. The system resume time is short- ened when you disable the function, but system will need an AGP driver to initialize the VGA card. Therefore, if the AGP driver of the card does not support the initializa- tion feature, the display may work abnormally or not function after resuming from S3.